Life is like a box of chocolates: it ends quickly when it tumbles into lava. Enjoy the transient experience of sweet pleasure while you can with today's deal: for $12, you get one pound of fine assorted chocolates from Dinstuhl's Fine Candy Company at any of their three locations: Pleasant View Road, Laurelwood Shopping Center, or The Shops of Saddle Creek.

Dinstuhl's is a family-owned and family-operated business that's been serving up sweets to Memphis since 1902. Even today, a Dinstuhl can be found in the kitchen, helping to hand-make something worthy of significant salivation. With today's Groupon tucked into your nougat center, you can obtain a one-pound box of assorted chocolates from one of Dinstuhl's three candy cabins, while avoiding the candy cabin in the forest. Your chocolate box will contain a dazzling array of fine handmade chocolates that include nuts, creams, caramels, nougats, and chips covered with rich milk and dark chocolate, all of which are crafted with top-of-the-pole ingredients and nature's chocolate (love).

With spring coating the earth like the detritus of an industrial shampoo explosion and summer threatening to chew through its straps at any moment, there are a number of obligations to prepare for. Mother's Day, birthdays, graduations, Burton Gilliam Day, and heat exhaustion are all events best met palm-on with a box of fresh, delectable chocolates.

Sales tax is included.